A society might be more trusting if citizens could see the tax returns of all their fellow taxpayers. Norway is doing exactly this.
To be complete, Norway might also publish the citizens receiving taxpayer funded services.
Some possibilities ramifications to consider:
- Norweigian Tim Geigthners and other tax avoiders might be turned in by their neighbors.
- Those […]
Why would the largely privately-funded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum want to restrict access to historical archives in contradiction to its stated purpose to exist in the first place? If the records support the long-told official story, one would think that the the museum would want the widest possible distributed access to the actual historical […]
A Detroit television reporter was able to confirm that the Kilpatrick Civic Fund, a nonprofit created by Detroit mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, paid the luxury La Costa Hotel and Spa $8,605.03 for two rooms for Kilpatrick, his wife and sons while the mayor, according to fund officials, was there fundraising for the group.
At the insistence of […]
The publically funded federal agency that traditionally keeps tabs on earmarks, the Library of Congress Congressional Research Service (CRS), has announced it no longer will respond to requests from congressional members on the number or scale of earmarks. This, because of political pressure, some say.
Regrettably old habits — and hypocrisy — die hard on Capitol […]
Corporate America’s traditional secrecy on political spending is under attack from an investor drive for greater transparency before the 2008 presidential election campaign.
Now that pension fund managers are facing vast shortages in pension fund balances they are going to get a lot more interested in how their corporate investments manage their expenses - including political […]